{"id":1159,"date":"2022-11-01T11:16:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T16:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:21:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T17:21:41","slug":"parasite-cleanses-are-modern-snake-oil-experts-explain-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/11\/01\/parasite-cleanses-are-modern-snake-oil-experts-explain-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Parasite cleanses are \u2018modern snake oil.\u2019 Experts explain why."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2022\/10\/31\/parasite-cleanse-snake-oil\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>) You don\u2019t need to spend much time hobnobbing in wellness circles \u2014 on social media or in real life \u2014 before parasite cleanses come up. Long before they started\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/discover\/parasite-cleanse?lang=en\">trending on TikTok<\/a>, I succumbed to doing a parasite cleanse because a doctor suggested it in her book about autoimmune disorders. According to the book, you could have intestinal parasites if you experience three or more of these:<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"AjtAcf GSXe\"><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Washington Post) You don\u2019t need to spend much time hobnobbing in wellness circles \u2014 on social media or in real life \u2014 before parasite cleanses come up. Long before they started\u00a0trending on TikTok, I succumbed to doing a parasite cleanse because a doctor suggested it in her book about autoimmune disorders. According to the book, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misinformation-disinformation-and-conspiracy-theories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1160,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions\/1160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}